Expert Voices

Our Speakers

Meet the speakers at BSides Kerala 2026.

Manoj Abraham

Manoj Abraham IPS

Director General of Police, Kerala Police | Director of Vigilance and Anti-corruption Bureau

Lt Gen. M Unnikrishnan Nair PVSM, AVSM, SM (Retd.)

Former National Cyber Security Coordinator (NCSC) at National Security Council Secretariat.

Prasad K. Panicker

Executive Chairman of Nayara Energy Limited.

P Prakash IPS

IGP SCRB and Nodal Officer CCTNS Kerala

Umesh Goyal IPS

SP, Tele Communication Kerala Police

Vittal Raj

R Vittal Raj

Founder and Partner at Kumar & Raj Chartered Accountants, Member RBI Standing Committee and Former International Vice President at ISACA

Jojy

Mariam Mammen Mathew

CEO - Manorama Online at Malayala Manorama

Jojy

Suzannah Muthoot

Executive Director at Muthoot Housing Finance Company Ltd.

A Balakrishnan

A Balakrishnan

Director at Geojit Financial Services Ltd.

V V Jacob

V V Jacob

Chief General Manager, Systems at Malayala Manorama Co. Pvt. Ltd.

Sony A

Sony A

Chief General Manager and CIO at South Indian Bank

Johnson Jose

Group President and CTO at Federal Bank

Manu

Manu Zacharia

InfoSec Evangelist with 25+ years of experience, CEO of HackIT Technology and Advisory Services, Founder of c0c0n.

Manu

Dr. Girish Kulkarni

CISO at eHRC, IIT-B (Tele Manas) and Information Technology Specialist at NIMHANS

John

John Varughese

General Manager at Dhanlaxmi Bank

Ananth

Ananth Subramanian

Executive Vice President and Head of IT at Kotak Mutual Fund.

Sunil Varkey

Sunil Varkey

CISO, CTO, Former Wipro Fellow, Writer, Speaker, Mentor, Cyber Evangelist

Robin Joy

Robin Joy

Director at Pearl Soft Technologies, Independent Director at Muthoot Money Ltd. and Emsyne Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Former VP and CIO at V Guard Industries Ltd.

Ajith

Ajith Balagopal

Vice President Enterprise Services and Cyber security at Envestnet, Inc.

Vandana

Vandana Verma

Security Leader at Snyk, Compliance Lead at OWASP, President at InfosecGirls

Shiju Rawther

Dr. A Shiju Rawther

Chief Information and Technology Officer at CareEdge Ratings.

Prince Joseph

Dr. Prince Joseph

Group Chief Information Officer at NesT Group, SFO Technologies

Deepu S

Deepu S

Chief Information Security Officer at Muthoot Microfin Ltd

Anil Menon

Anil Menon

Chief Information Officer at Lulu group India.

Anil Menon

Dipu K V

Senior President at Bajaj General Insurance

Anil Menon

Anoop Job Choondal

Director - Cyber Risk & Compliance, Digital Trust, KPMG

Anil Menon

Shibin Chulliparambil

Head of Information Technology at Malabar Group

Thomas

Thomas Kurian Ambattu

Business Head - Cybersecurity at Apeiron Pte Ltd.

Thomas

Rajeev Panicker

Global Scheme Manager - Automotive Cyber security at DNV

Thomas

Vinodhkumar

Chief Technology Officer at Muthoot MCred Limited

Biju

Biju K

Chief Data Protection Officer at Federal Bank

Biju

Shantanu Mahajan

Solutions Architect at Netskope

Biju

Rushikesh R Dhumal

Sr. Solutions Architect AI at Econz

Jojy

Jojy Payyanickal

CISO at Geojit Financial Services Ltd.

Jojy

Himanshu Kumar Das

Chief Information Security Officer at CRED

Manjith

Manjith M R

Chief Information Security Officer at ESAF Bank

Jithin Vijayan

Jithin Vijayan

CEO at NdimensionZ Solutions, 3x Guinnes World Record Skydiver

jai-thomas

Jai Thomas

Chief Information officer at VerSe Innovation

Georgie Kurien

Chief Information Security Officer & Head of Cyber Assurance Practice at SecnSure

Suvabrata (Suva) Sinha

CISO-in-Residence at Zscaler

Shinoj Kumar

Chief Information Security Officer at The Muthoot Group

Adarsh Nair

Director & Global Head of Information Security Compliance at UST

Akhil Sharma

Founder at ArmurAI

Abhishek Dashora

Director - Cyber Defense and Incident Response at KPMG

Kiran Mohandas

Director Sales at Fortinet

Anish Mamachan

Manager - Cyber Defense & Incident Response, Digital Trust, KPMG

Aravind C Ajayan

Product Security Architect at Philips, Security Centre of Excellence team

Kartik lalan

Product Security Architect at Security Centre of Excellence - Philips Innovation Campus.

Kabilan Sakthivel

Security Researcher at Zscaler (squareX)

Sahil Gupta

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at Siemens

Rahul Thareja

Founder and CEO at C1PH3R-FSocitey

Niranjan Jayanand

Advanced Threat Hunting Service Lead at Cyberproof

Dakshita Agarwal

Senior Security Engineer at Sharechat co

Sudhanshu Dasgupta

Software Engineer at SafeDep

Litesh Ghute

Software Engineer (R&D) at INE

G Khartheesvar

Software Engineer at INE

Season Cherian

Lead Hardware Security Researcher at Traboda Cyber Labs

Abhinand N

Lead Mobile Security Engineer at Traboda Cyber Labs

Sreesankar S

Security Researcher at Traboda Cyber Labs

Vivek N J

Senior Security Researcher at Traboda Cyber Labs

Shana Buhaisa P

Associate Security Consultant at BreachSimRange

Auria Theresa Jijo

Security Researcher Intern at BreachSimRange

Vipin George

Cyber Forensic Consultant at LEAs, Kerala Excise

Abhisek Rajkumar

Security Consultant at NetSPI and Founder of The Abhisek Cast

Taha Kathiria

Cybersecurity Researcher at Dayananda Sagar Academy of Technology and Management and Volunteer at AI-Sec Community

Sam MG Harish

Mobile Security Researcher at Team bi0s

Praveen S

Offensive Security Lead at Healthcare Industry, DEF CON Group Trivandrum

Anand Kumar

Detection Engineering at Grant Thronton Bharat

BSides Kerala 2026